A group of prominent city officials yesterday demanded that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office set aside the convictions of the five men who were jailed for the brutal 1989 Central Park jogger rape – on the basis that they’re innocent.

DA Robert Morgenthau has reopened the case now that another man – convicted rapist Matias Reyes – has confessed to the crime.

DNA testing has also linked Reyes to the scene.

The DA’s Office has suggested that the verdict may be set aside on a legal technicality because the NYPD failed to provide a police report of a similar rape just two days earlier in Central Park to the defense.

City Councilman Bill Perkins, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, members of the Black and Hispanic Caucus and several local church leaders held a news conference on the steps of City Hall yesterday to urge Morgenthau to declare the five men innocent.

“There is irrefutable DNA evidence that corroborates the confession of a convicted murderer and rapist that he committed this crime and acted alone,” Perkins said.

“For over 13 years these five boys – now men – and their families have been living with the stigma of rape. It is now time for them to be free of this albatross.”

All five men have served their sentences. There are several theories surrounding the April 19, 1989, attack: that Reyes acted alone, that he was with a group of people when they attacked the jogger, or that he attacked the jogger either before or after she was attacked by the gang.

Reyes – who is currently serving a 33-year prison sentence for attacking five women, including the rape and murder of a pregnant woman – confessed only after the statute of limitations on rape had run out.